Nike exec withdraws from consideration for Obama post - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):

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But acting AmeriCorps CEO Nicky Goren, in a letter posteds to the AmeriCorps Website Friday, said the Whit House sent notice of Eitel’s “Our thoughts are with Maria as she focuses on her personak health,” Goren wrote. “Finding leadership for the Corporatiom continues to be a very high priority for theWhite House.” In Obama said Eitel offered “a unique blend of skills and management experience” at a time when his administration was expandinvg the nation’s public service programs.
On the same day he announced Eitel as a candidate forthe job, Obamq signed the Serve America Act, a vast expansion of federa social service programs that includes increasingb AmeriCorp’s available service positions from 75,000 to 250,000. Eite is currently a Nike Inc. NKE) vice president and president of the Nike the Washington County athleticappareo giant’s charitable arm. Before heading the she was Nike’s first vice president for corporate Prior tojoining Nike, she was European corporate affaires group manager for Microsoft Corp. and has also workede for the Corporation for Publicv Broadcasting and MCICommunicationes Corp.
This would have been Eitel’s second presidential assignment. She served under Presiden t George H.W. Bush from 1989 to 1992 as deputy director of media relations and later as special assistant to the presidengt formedia affairs.